Michael Faraday
1791–1867 · British scientist
Topics: learning, science, mathematics
There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle.
— Michael FaradayNature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
— Michael FaradayALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
— Michael FaradayI have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it
— Michael FaradayIt is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.
— Michael FaradayI was at first almost frightened when I saw such mathematical force made to bear upon the subject, and then wondered to see that the subject stood it so well.
— Michael Faraday